Tabulator is an easy to use, simple to code, fully featured, interactive JavaScript library for creating tables and data grids. It is a plain JavaScript library designed to work seamlessly across all frontend JavaScript frameworks.

Here are the principal features and functionalities of Tabulator:

Core Data Handling and Performance

• Data Sources: Data can be loaded initially from a JavaScript array or asynchronously via Ajax requests.

• Reactive Data: The table can update dynamically as the underlying data changes.

• Virtual DOM: It uses a virtualized DOM for lightning-fast rendering, especially beneficial for handling large data sets.

• File Operations: Users can download data directly from the table to CSV or XLSX files. Conversely, it supports importing content directly from xlsx, csv, and ods files.

• Pagination: Tabulator offers automatic local and remote data pagination, allowing settings like displaying a specific number of rows per page,.

Interactivity and Editing

• Direct Editing: Users can edit table data directly in the table, utilizing various editors like simple input fields or lists.

• History Management: It allows for undo and redo actions on user interactions via a built-in history feature,.

• Selection: Supports both row selection (single or multiple) and selection of multiple cell ranges.

• Clipboard Functionality: Data can be copied and pasted from the table using the Clipboard feature.

• Validation: It provides input validation to check user input before it is stored in the table.

• Key Bindings: Keyboard shortcuts are customizable for table interaction.

Structure, Filtering, and Layout

• Filtering and Sorting: Data can be filtered to display specific records and sorted by any value or data type. Initial sort orders can also be defined.

• Grouping and Hierarchy: Rows can be graphically grouped by any specified data, and data can be structured as a tree with clickable nodes.

• Layout Customization: Layout can be customized (e.g., fitColumns), and column order can be changed using movableColumns,.

• Responsive Design: Features responsive layout to automatically hide or show data to fit the size of the table,.

• Freeze Data: Columns and rows can be frozen in place while the user scrolls.

• Column Calculations: Tabulator can calculate values such as max, min, avg, and sum from column data.

Customization and Extensibility

• Formatting and Styling: It supports creating custom formatters to graphically display data (e.g., progress bars, stars, tick/cross icons). All graphical elements are assigned classes for full CSS styling, and five prepackaged themes are included.

• Localization: The content of the tables can be localized to multiple languages, and it supports right to left (RTL) text direction.

• Mutators: Data can be altered as it enters and leaves the table using mutators.

• Persistence: The configuration (layout, sort, filter) can be remembered between user visits.

• Developer Interaction: Developers can interact with the tool through a selection of callbacks.

• Menus: Provides context menus for rows, columns, and cells.

• Accessibility: Aria tags are used on all elements for enhanced readability.

• Touch Friendly: The software is fully functional on mobile touch devices.

• Printing: Supports custom print styling and full page printing,.